Abstract

MARTINEZ TORRES, José. The Leper Colony, by José Revueltas. Desde el Sur [online]. 2019, vol.11, n.2, pp.33-40. ISSN 2076-2674.  http://dx.doi.org/10.21142/DES-1102-2019-33-40.

This article offers an analysis of several technical features of what José Revueltas called dialectical-materialist realism, which involves the depiction of the bleakest scenes and characters of capitalistic society, from the perspective of a militant communist. The author addressed his poetics in a brief essay published as the preface to the second edition of Los muros de agua, which the author saw as marking his twentieth anniversary as a writer whose first work had been published in 1941. The literary principles discussed are illustrated with quotes from the novel in question, while employing Virginia Woolf’s own notions associated with disease in literature.

Keywords : José Revueltas; dialectical-materialist realism; Los muros de agua; disease.

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